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The award-winning author of Femmes Fatal and The Thin Woman serves up the ubiquitous mother-in-law joke family style—with death for the punch line. . . .Nothing like a live-in mother-in-law to reduce a woman to the role of junior housemaid. That’s what Ellie Haskell discovers when her husband’s parents have a row in the midst of their anniversary dinner, and mother Magdalene seeks refuge in Ellie’s guest bedroom. Suddenly Ellie is being driven round the bend by the woman’s show more constant demands.
Thank goodness for the other wives who also suffer the age-old mother-in-law curse. A chance meeting down at the Dark Horse pub finds them trading horror stories, and soon they’re mixing gin and tonics with homicidal fantasies—a soupçon of poison here, a broken brake line there. All very therapeutic and no harm intended. At least, that’s what Ellie thinks. . . .
Praise for How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law
“Vintage Cannell. . . . Dorothy Cannell is a master at creating wildly ludicrous characters and hilarious plots. . . . Her latest Ellie Haskell adventure only enhances her reputation.”—Booklist
“Side-splitting!”—Rendezvous
“Toxic and hilarious.”—Publishers Weekly. show less
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Ellie finds herself with a mess. Her Mother-in-law is now living with them, and blcakmailers are calling. Murder tops it all when Mothers-in-law in the town are targets.
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Dorothy Cannell was born in Nottingham, England and moved to the United States when she was twenty. Her first Ellie Haskell novel, The Thin Woman, was selected as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Besides the Ellie Haskell Mysteries series, her other novels include God show more Save the Queen!, Naked Came the Farmer, The Sunken Sailor, and Sea Glass Summer. She is also a contributor to the popular Sisters in Crime anthologies. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law
- Original title
- How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- Ellie Haskel; Ben Haskell; Magdalene Haskell; Elijah Haskell; Beatrix Taffer
- Important places
- Chitterton Fells, England, UK (fictional)
- First words
- Some women are born to meddle.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"So, as a mother who wants only the best for her son, I think it would be wise to get Tam enrolled as early as possible..."
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- English, German
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
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